ggoff94
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Post by ggoff94 on Aug 15, 2011 17:33:56 GMT -5
So I just reread TBL and now I'm thinking about something. Im sure you have realized this before so I'd like to know your thoughts on it. In the letter Lemony writes to Beatrice responding to her book his answer to question four is interesting. It talks about the poem in the program to the play which Beatrice performed in. Lemony states that he does not recall reading it and if he did he does not recall being puzzled by it. This makes me think that Beatrice was attempting to send some information to lemony through the poem. This is starting to make me think that the poem itself may be a code! It is called "My Silence Knot" which is an anagrams for Lemony Snicket, plus lemony talks about the how a sonnet could be in code. And lastly, lemony seemed rather intent on retrieving the sonnet itself! Has anyone else considered that the sonnet could be an anagram for something much bigger?!
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Post by Dante on Aug 16, 2011 2:35:59 GMT -5
" Sadly, this missing sonnet is like a missing sock--it had been lost for so long that everything else has completely unravelled in its absence." The time has passed. Whatever immediate, context-specific clues were hidden in that poem have gone now. They don't matter any more. Maybe if Lemony had been paying more attention to the sonnet at the time it was spoken, events might have gone very differently, but we don't see that day, or any of the days that surround it, so we can't predict what would have changed or what might have been. You know, I've been writing an essay recently about how the codes in ASoUE aren't necessarily decoded using some complex set of rules. Decoding them is more like a close reading; you read around the lines, within the lines, between the lines, uncovering statements which are left implied or in disguise using only your own ingenuity. I'm pretty confident there's no bigger code hidden in My Silence Knot that we're missing - no anagram, no acrostic or cypher. Instad, what you're reading is the conclusion to a story about two people from long ago and what happened to them. It's a poem about Lemony and Beatrice, and their role in ASoUE. It's that first and foremost - a piece of metafiction, fiction about the fiction - and reading it that way is more important than trying to fit it into the very thinly-traced backstory of the series. If you want to look at it as something that can actually be decoded and have an event read into it, though, thedoctororwell's done a rather good reading here.
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ggoff94
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Post by ggoff94 on Aug 16, 2011 12:55:03 GMT -5
I did read that passage and figured the information was no longer of importance to lemony, however was still perhaps important to us. I do highly agree with your thoughts on the code though. While there are obvious placements of coded messages especially in TUA, I believe that Lemony left more obvious 'codes' that can easily be skimmed over. Even when it comes to how people came to the conclusion that the Baudelaire parents may have killed Olafs parents. There is no coded message revealing this, however through one line recollections or simple statements, a conclusion, though not concrete, can be deducted from his statements.
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